By AFP
A play about sexual violence towards girls, by which its creator takes a “date rape” drug reside on stage, has shocked Europe’s greatest theatre competition.
Brazilian performer Carolina Bianchi — who was herself raped after being drugged on an evening out — wrote “The Bride and Good Night Cinderella” describing the “journey into hell” that so many ladies are put by way of.
Some individuals have walked out of the efficiency on the Avignon Festival in France, which its creator admitted is stunning, with the organisers warning that it might disturb.
Bianchi informed AFP that she determined to deal with the problem head-on as a result of it “happened to me. I was the victim of a rape 10 years ago. I stayed silent because it happened after a ‘rape drink'” which had been spiked to muddle her reminiscence.
“So I cannot access what happened. You want to know what happened and at the same time you cannot access that memory. So you start to construct. You start to use your imagination. And then everything starts to connect.”
But Blanchi insisted that “I’m not doing this because I need catharsis. I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe in being cured because what happened will never disappear.”
‘Goodnight Cinderella’ drug
The play, which is about to tour Europe, ends with what seems to be a reside gynaecological examination of the by-then drugged and sleeping Bianchi, on the bonnet of a automobile that’s projected onto a display screen.
Earlier, as she took the “date rape” drug popularly referred to as “Goodnight Cinderella”, she informed the viewers that “you may perhaps be disturbed”.
As Bianchi slowly falls asleep from the managed mixture of tranquillisers — with docs standing by offstage — different performers emerge and a mass grave filled with skeletons is revealed whereas the tales of murdered girls seem on display screen.
“I don’t ask the audience to feel the emotion (the victim is going through) but to sit and listen to these stories of sexual violence,” she stated.
The play opens with a lecture by Bianchi utilizing a movie a few sequence of Botticelli work of looking scenes, together with “The Disembowelment of the Woman Pursued”, the place a horseman kills a good looking younger lady and throws her physique to his canine.
She then attracts a parallel with the infamous case of the Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes, who continued to play regardless of being convicted of ordering the homicide of his lover and mom of his son, who was reduce up and fed to a canine.
But the victims evoked by Bianchi vary far past her homeland Brazil, the place she stated a rape is reported each 10 minutes and a girl killed each seven hours.
‘Not straightforward to listen to’
Another central determine of the efficiency is the Italian artist Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered close to Istanbul in 2008 throughout a efficiency the place she hitchhiked throughout Europe and the Middle East with one other artist dressed as brides.
Blanchi stated she turned “obsessed” with the performer, who had got down to “prove to all that it’s possible that you can find hospitality” however who ended up lifeless.
The playwright admitted that among the scenes within the play “may be shocking, but they need to be because they are part of telling this story.”
“To sit and listen to tales about sexual violence — it is not straightforward to remain, and it is not straightforward to pay attention and to listen to.
“The hardest parts of the piece are not seen, they are the stories” of the victims.
Blanchi stated she created the present to not heal or “show the world how unhappy I am” however to discover “what happens to women who survive rape”.
“I wanted to create a language so that we can talk about this subject, and as a method of self-defence.”
The Avignon Festival runs till July 25.
A play about sexual violence towards girls, by which its creator takes a “date rape” drug reside on stage, has shocked Europe’s greatest theatre competition.
Brazilian performer Carolina Bianchi — who was herself raped after being drugged on an evening out — wrote “The Bride and Good Night Cinderella” describing the “journey into hell” that so many ladies are put by way of.
Some individuals have walked out of the efficiency on the Avignon Festival in France, which its creator admitted is stunning, with the organisers warning that it might disturb.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Bianchi informed AFP that she determined to deal with the problem head-on as a result of it “happened to me. I was the victim of a rape 10 years ago. I stayed silent because it happened after a ‘rape drink'” which had been spiked to muddle her reminiscence.
“So I cannot access what happened. You want to know what happened and at the same time you cannot access that memory. So you start to construct. You start to use your imagination. And then everything starts to connect.”
But Blanchi insisted that “I’m not doing this because I need catharsis. I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe in being cured because what happened will never disappear.”
‘Goodnight Cinderella’ drug
The play, which is about to tour Europe, ends with what seems to be a reside gynaecological examination of the by-then drugged and sleeping Bianchi, on the bonnet of a automobile that’s projected onto a display screen.
Earlier, as she took the “date rape” drug popularly referred to as “Goodnight Cinderella”, she informed the viewers that “you may perhaps be disturbed”.
As Bianchi slowly falls asleep from the managed mixture of tranquillisers — with docs standing by offstage — different performers emerge and a mass grave filled with skeletons is revealed whereas the tales of murdered girls seem on display screen.
“I don’t ask the audience to feel the emotion (the victim is going through) but to sit and listen to these stories of sexual violence,” she stated.
The play opens with a lecture by Bianchi utilizing a movie a few sequence of Botticelli work of looking scenes, together with “The Disembowelment of the Woman Pursued”, the place a horseman kills a good looking younger lady and throws her physique to his canine.
She then attracts a parallel with the infamous case of the Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes, who continued to play regardless of being convicted of ordering the homicide of his lover and mom of his son, who was reduce up and fed to a canine.
But the victims evoked by Bianchi vary far past her homeland Brazil, the place she stated a rape is reported each 10 minutes and a girl killed each seven hours.
‘Not straightforward to listen to’
Another central determine of the efficiency is the Italian artist Pippa Bacca, who was raped and murdered close to Istanbul in 2008 throughout a efficiency the place she hitchhiked throughout Europe and the Middle East with one other artist dressed as brides.
Blanchi stated she turned “obsessed” with the performer, who had got down to “prove to all that it’s possible that you can find hospitality” however who ended up lifeless.
The playwright admitted that among the scenes within the play “may be shocking, but they need to be because they are part of telling this story.”
“To sit and listen to tales about sexual violence — it is not straightforward to remain, and it is not straightforward to pay attention and to listen to.
“The hardest parts of the piece are not seen, they are the stories” of the victims.
Blanchi stated she created the present to not heal or “show the world how unhappy I am” however to discover “what happens to women who survive rape”.
“I wanted to create a language so that we can talk about this subject, and as a method of self-defence.”
The Avignon Festival runs till July 25.
